TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Glomerulonephritis
A1  - Lopez, Michelle A.
A2  - Zaoutis, Lisa B.
A2  - Chiang, Vincent W.
Y1  - 2017
N1  - 
T2  - Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine, 2e
AB  - Glomerulonephritis  (GN)  is  not  a  specific  disease,  but  rather  an  inflammatory  state  within  the  renal  glomerulus.  This  inflammation  causes  glomerular  injury  and  results  in  impaired  glomerular  filtration  with  subsequent  abnormal  urinary  sediment  and  possibly  decreased  renal  function.  It  is  often  associated  with  edema  and  hypertension.  Clinically,  GN  spans  a  wide  spectrum  of  disease  from  a  fairly  benign,  self-limited  condition  to  an  aggressive  systemic  disease  that  can  lead  to  rapid  loss  of  renal  function.  This  chapter  focuses  on  the  four  common  presentations  of  GN  that  are  most  likely  to  be  found  in  hospitalized  patients:  asymptomatic  hematuria,  acute  GN,  rapidly  progressive  GN  (RPGN),  and  chronic  GN.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146119780
ER  -